Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:33:23 +0200
> From: "Ehud Karni" <address@hidden>
> 
> On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 18:54:18 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > (what is cp-1255 anyway?)
> > 
> > It's identical to 8859-8, except that the codes in the range 128..159
> > have characters that are outside iso8859-8 set (a.k.a. MS extensions).
> 
> In my hebeng.el package you can choose the Hebrew type used (UNIX/DOS).

cp-1255 is for Windows, not for DOS (as I'm sure Ehud knows).

> > As for the paragraph main direction, after lots of thinking, I
> > propose the following model:
> > 
> >   - If the user wants to force the paragraph to be of a certain
> >     directionality, she should type the LRM or RLM code as the first
> >     character of the paragraph.
> > 
> >   - Otherwise, Emacs will decide the paragraph direction by looking
> >     at the first strong character: if it's R, the direction will be
> >     RTL, otherwise it will be LTR.
> 
> The 2nd option encloses the 1st since LRM and RLM are considered
> strong L / R characters.

Yes, from the UAX#9 point of view.  From the user's point of view,
the first option requires an action on the part of the user, the
second one does not.